binge drinking

Binge drinking Many college students see alcohol as a way to loosen up and to party, but what many of them don’t know are the dangers of binge drinking. Binge drinking has a gender-specific definition: five drinks in a row for men and four drinks in a row for women. Binge drinking has many negative consequences that can be both physical and emotional. Alcohol is a depressant, meaning that it slows down the nervous …

…that a drunk obtains from that night might not get stored. This means that sometimes one might wake up the next morning and not remember what they did the night before. Blackouts put a person at a greater risk of death, unsafe sex, unplanned pregnancy, violence, rape, and legal troubles. The chance of having a blackout is greatly increased with the amount of alcohol one drinks in a night, in other words from binge drinking.